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Styles of cooking
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cuisine /kwɪ'zi:n/ ----- [Italian/Thai...cuisine] ----- [Trying the local cuisine is all part of the fun of travelling.] | [countable] [formal] the food you can eat in a particular restaurant, country, or area |
| get a taste for sth ----- [I really got a taste for it when I visited the country. Indian food relies on spices and strong flavors.] | If you get a taste for sth, you try it and start to like it. |
| spice ----- [Indian food relies on spices and strong flavors.] | [uncountable, countable] a type of powder or seed, taken from plants, that you put into food you are cooking to give it a special taste |
| flavor ----- [Indian food relies on spices and strong flavors.] | [countable] a particular type of taste |
| cooking ----- [I love my Mum’s home cooking.] | [uncountable] food made in a particular way, or by a particular person |
| hot ----- [Indian food can be quite hot and spicy, but with the climate they have over there that's an advantage because it helps to cool you down.] | food that tastes hot has a burning taste because it contains strong spices |
| spicy ----- [Indian food can be quite hot and spicy, but with the climate they have over there that's an advantage because it helps to cool you down.] | food that is spicy has a pleasantly strong taste because spices have been used to flavor it |
| make up sth ----- [There are many different traditions that make up Chinese cuisine.] | [not in progressive] to combine together to form sth |
| fish and 'chips | [uncountable] [especially in Britain] a meal consisting of fish covered with batter (= a mixture of flour and milk ) and cooked in oil, served with chips |
| spaghetti | [uncountable] a type of pasta in very long thin pieces, that is cooked in boiling water |
| 'Parmesan | [uncountable] a hard Italian cheese |
| 'hotpot | [in Britain] [countable, uncountable] a hot dish of meat, potato, onion, etc. cooked slowly in liquid in the oven |
| stew /stu:/ ----- [a stew of potatoes and lamb] | [uncountable, countable] a hot meal made by cooking meat and vegetables slowly in liquid for a long time |
| tortilla ----- [Tortillas are eaten as bread with rice, tomatoes, garlic and chillies.] ----- [One of my favorites is a tortilla wrapped around spicy chicken and fried onions with chilli sauce.] | a thin Mexican pancake made with corn flour or wheat flour, usually eaten hot and filled with meat, cheese, etc. |
| an acquired taste ----- [I have to say that Japanese food is an acquired taste.] | [idiom] a thing that you do not like much at first but you begin to like after you have tried it several times |
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